Your life and your career seem less fulfilling than you expected despite your successes. You’re stressed and plowing through doesn’t work anymore.

Advice from family and even therapists to simply take time off has seemed disconnected and a misunderstanding of your experience. Let’s try something different.

Hi, I’m Toby James

A former BigLaw attorney now therapist for lawyers and professionals.

I know the struggle.

As a lawyer for 4.5 years and as a therapist in Raleigh, NC for the past 14 years, I understand the difficulties of managing life amidst a demanding, stressful career.

I became a psychotherapist to put my empathy, compassion, curiosity, insight, and creativity to work for people like us.

I now help lawyers and professionals navigate challenging lives and careers, so they can find the awareness, balance, and healing they’re looking for.

My hope is that you won’t have to end your career to find that healing, as I did.  But if you decide that is the path that is best for you, let’s walk it together.

I know the courage it takes to leave behind the hopes and investment you put into becoming a lawyer, doctor, pastor, or anything else.

Why work with me?

Together, we can work through the anxiety, depression, trauma, compassion fatigue, perfectionism, impostor syndrome, and byproducts stress can create.

This work helps you heal so you can discover who you are beneath the patterns, defenses, thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors keeping you stuck.

I am psychodynamically trained, so I treat root causes not just symptoms.

That’s how you find lasting growth, wellbeing, and fulfillment you’re after.

• Member of the Florida Bar since 1999, and practiced law in Tampa with Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings, & Evans, PA and Shook, Hardy, & Bacon LLP. Four and a half years of experience as an attorney in the areas of products liability, medical malpractice, commercial litigation, and insurance defense.
• Board Certified Psychotherapist in North Carolina since 2017, Certified Fee-Based Practicing Pastoral Counselor.
• Ordained in the United Methodist Church since 2019, Associate Pastor of Wilson Temple UMC.
• Certified Enneagram Professional, Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy, since 2024.